#blackwellnessmatters

[bylalalove]

This is the first time I have finished a book in YEARS. Chidera singlehandedly changed and confirmed a lot of my life choices, after reading her book of self love, revelation, and evolution. If you still haven't got a copy, then you are ASLEEP. Stop hitting the snooze button and go be enlightened. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk xx - - - #WATTBA #Blogger #Wellness #WellnessBlog #WellnessBlogger #Wellbeing #BlackWellness #BlackWellnessBloggers #BlackWellnessMatters #MentalHealth #SelfCare #SelfLove #PinkBlog (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs5m-G9hP3y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1g1ghctc2oh4n

[inherpower]

**Tranquil Tuesday** Take some time out to reset and let the stress of the day fall away. Even if you only have one minute, you can take that minute for yourself to regenerate. #groundingandcentering #spiritualfoundation #blackwellnessmatters (at Miami, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBgRvm7F-59/?igshid=1bz3z07lxbphx

[thefeministwire]

Winning our Movements Inside and Out: Shifting the Social Justice Back into our Work

Winning our Movements Inside and Out: Shifting the Social Justice Back into our Work

By Jardana Peacock Trauma is everywhere. It lives in between the lines of the articles we scan on Facebook, in our interactions with others, in our holistic health clinics, in our social justice organizations, and in our organizing work. It also lives in our bodies, psyches and spirits. Changemakers, in particular, are living with and working through two kinds of trauma simultaneously: primary…

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[healthcarejusticeboston]

The Paradox of Effort

When striving becomes a health hazard

"Researchers at Harvard School of Public Health recently found that the greatest disparities between blacks and whites in sleep quantity were among people with high-level professional jobs; that high socioeconomic status is beneficial in terms of sleep among whites but detrimental among blacks. The high prevalence of poor sleep among African-American executives, the researchers wrote last year in The New York Times, “can be attributed partly to limited professional and social networks that can provide financial and emotional support; discrimination or microaggressions experienced in the workplace; hypervigilance because of a perceived high work ethic needed to succeed; or greater levels of neighborhood and home stress.”"